Death to Lawn Mowers

Some astonishing news from Ron Dembo over at Huffington Post:

I recently discovered, to my horror, that a typical gas powered lawnmower produces as much pollution in 7 hours of operation as a modern car does in a 100,000 miles of driving! Another way of looking at this is that the two-stroke gasoline lawnmower that is ubiquitous in the suburbs of North America, pollutes as much in one hour as 40 late model cars running for the same amount of time!

Why? Because the off-road engines found on lawnmowers, leaf blowers, tillers, as well as snow blowers, snowmobiles and dirt bikes don't have to have catalytic converters. These handy devices reduce gasoline emissions by about 90%, and are mandatory on cars and trucks.

There is no love lost between me and my lawn. Lawn Mowing is the most tedious and torturous household chore that I encounter on a routine basis. So, even though this is rotten news, I will at least be able to have an excuse for letting my grass grow a week longer before I cut it.

Or I guess I could just get one of these.

Even though I really want one of these.